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Electronic book

1 online resource (478 pages)

9781563682520, 1563682524

1032708777

Cover; Title page; Contents; Copyright page; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Preface; Part 1. Lessons of a Dark Past; Introduction; Chapter 1. Disability and Society before the Eighteenth Century: Dread and Despair; Chapter 2. Education and Enlightenment: New Views and New Methods; Part 2. Into the Light of a More Modern World; Introduction; Chapter 3. The Rise of Institutions, Asylums, and Public Charities; Chapter 4. Education for Exceptional Students in North America after 1850; Chapter 5. Physicians, Pedagogues, and Pupils: Defining the Institutional Population. Chapter 6. More Than Three Rs: Life in Nineteenth-Century InstitutionsChapter 7. Teaching Exceptional Students in the Nineteenth Century; Part 3. Into the New Century; Introduction; Chapter 8. Measures and Mismeasures: The IQ Myth; Chapter 9. The "Threat of the Feebleminded"; Chapter 10. From Isolation to Segregation: The Emergence of Special Classes; Chapter 11. New Categories, New Labels; Part 4. Segregation to Integration; Introduction; Chapter 12. Approaching Integration; Bibliography; Index